doings orwonm
moved and then rub it with the cot
side of a lemon and sprinkle thickly
with table salt.
The ink spots may be removed from
white wash fabrics by soaking a few
minutes and then washing in a strong
solution of oxalic acid, taking care to
wash out the acid thoroughly after
ward. Melted tallow poured on the
spot while hot and scraped off when
cold will also be found to be safe and
often a sure remedy.
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY
PRESIDENT TAFT AS HE W0UÏD APPEAR
WEARING THE PROPOSED STATE JEWELS.
Chinese schools and students, have
grown rapidly in the last decade.
Babylon’s inhabitants frequented li
braries seventeen centuries before
Christ.
Under the new law for buildings ¿n
New York city the number of dark
rooms in tenements have been reduced
from 250,000 to 101,117. “Let there be
Dressmaker.
Of course, every one likes to have a light,” is the motto of the board of
Limitations.
pleated, close-fitting coat proper with new slut each season, but four suits a inspection.
He had mastered all wisdom abroad graduated peplum and straight belt of
year soon land one in quite a mess of
Of the 1,467 foreigners at the col
and at home,
the material at the natural waistline.
His frontal bone bulged like a capitol The material is a very dark, smothly- half-worn clothes that are a burden leges of the United States, 460 hail
dome.
finished French serge, the frogs, cuffs, and a reproach to a conscientious wo from North America, 458 from Asia,
He had garnered the world’s choicest buttons and collar facing all of black. man. It is often wiser and more sat 313 from Europe, only 154 from South
fancy and fact,
isfactory to remodel a last year’s suit America, 64 from Australia and 18
And with things cyclopedic his mem’ry A Gage hat in the popular tricorne than to buy a new one.
from Africa.
shape
is
shown
with
this
suit.
was packed.
A
good
material
should
give
twd
or
The United States has more (22,244,-
He chortled with glee at the sight of
three seasons of hard service if it is 446) dairy cows than any other coun
new lore,
handled in the right manner. It can try in the world; more horses, 23,000,-
He digested each morsel-and clamored
always be cleaned, turned or dyed so 532; more mules, 4,056,399; more
for more,
that the most fastidious woman can swine, 57,976,361, and (except British
He knew all the tongues, down
Choctaw and Creek,
satisfy herself as to its absolute fresh India) more cattle, 73,246,573.
He lectured in Sanscrit and gossiped in
ness.
In a Belfast breach of promise case
Greek.
A new lining, new cuff and collar the man, a farmer, won. He agreed to
I Turbans of a- military appearance facings for a coat, and a general over marry a spinster if she could raise
But they asked him to stand as a god are very fetching with the
tailored hauling for a skirt, will put a last $500. She was able to get together
father once,
year’s suit quite in, order if one only only $300, so the farmer called it off,
And he blundered and failed like the suit.
Elaborate braiding appears on some intends using it for hard hacking and despite the fact that he had ordered
veriest dunce.
of the coats of the dressy tailored rainy days.
the clergyman to be on hand to marry
He was brave as a lion, unconquered, suits.
But if the suit must make a pre them. The judge said that the promise
untamed;
appearance
in
good
society
The newest coiffure is fiat in front sentable
to marry was conditional, and the con
His hair-breadth escapes were unnum
and piled heavily over the ears. It is one will ■have to go to a little more dition had not been fulfilled.
bered, unnamed.
It should be recut, the
trouble,
A mad dog amuck in the street scared called the Brittany.
Robert Wynne, the former United
sleeves
made
up to date and the neck
not him,
A brocade of a faint opal gray and
►States consul-general in London, in
opening,
collar,
etc.,
made
to
answer
And runaway steeds he had stopped pink made a lovely lining for a coat
tends to resume newspaper work in
to the last word on smart tailoring.
with great vim.
of
rich
black
sealskin.
the British capital. Before Mr. Wynne
He had battled for life on the ocean in
became postmaster-general of the Unit
With the season’s double-breasted
storm,
A Singing Teapot.*
He sought gravest perils to keep in coats the correct thing is to begin the
It is said that the Japanese, so in ed States he had a long and brilliant
good form.
■buttons at the waist line.
genious in making curious and fasci journalistic career, being also presi
While fire and tempest, or pistol and
Light yokes are much more becom nating devices of every kind, manu dent of the Gridiron Club at Wàshing
knife—•
ing
as a rule that the dark material of facture singing teakettles. An iron ton. He is intimately acquainted at
These menaces served as the breath of
the
gown coming next the face.
kettle, otherwise quite ordinary, has first hand with London and its celebri
his life.
Corded ribbon is being used as a the almost lifelike characteristic of ties.
There is an old superstition that if
But his wife sent him shopping, with
samples to match,
a spider settles on one’s clothes it is
MODISH DESIGNS FOB CHILDREN.
And he fainted—and never came-up to
a sign that he will shortly receive
the stratch. ?
money. “When a spider is found upon
—L. D.
our clothes,” says an old writer, “we
used to say, some money is coming
«Best Dressed’’ is Defined.
If I were laying down only one
toward us. The moral is this: Such
rule in the matter of dress I should
who Imitate the industry of that con
temptible creature may, by God’s bless
make it this,” said an authority on
ing, weave themselves into wealth and
woman’s dress, “Be inconspicuous.”
procure a plentiful estate.”
“I may add that personally it is a
great delight to me to purchase goods
To get rock for the Morena dam in
over the counter presided over by a
southern California, one of the biggest
tastefully dressed saleswoman. By
blasting operations on record has just
that I mean one who allows her own
been successfully carried out. Describ
»weetness and good looks to shine out
ing the feat, the Engineering Record
regardless of extravagant dress acces
says that a tunnel 125 feet long was
sories. Jewelry, for example, is much
first driven into the face of the gran
out of place on a working woman, or,
ite. In this chamber was placed 38,950
A member of the National House of Representatives has evolved a plan
indeed, on any woman when she goes
pounds of powder and dynamite. This ;o distinguish Mr. Taft and all future presidents by a splendid symbol of
downtown on business. It is exactly
was exploded by electric fuses and dis gold and jewels. According to the plan the decoration is to consist of. a
the same with the big bows and in
lodged 120,000 cubic yards of rock.
chain of gold with a huge pendant, which is to be a replica of the great seal
ordinate high heels and tightly laced
Blue books have a reputation for of State, emblazoned with diamonds and enriched by the highest art of the
My advice is one or at least
typographical accuracy .almost equal engraver. The remainder of this gorgeous chain is to be wrought of smaller
two drefta year, well made and of
to that, of the famous Clarendon Press, reproductions of the seals of the forty-nine States and territories of the
good material, rather than superfluous
which is said to offer a guinea reward United States, linked together with jeweled golden doves, to symbolize the
flashiness. Of course, a girl should go
for the detection of a single printer’s peace and unity in which they all dwell together in one republic.
to the theater and to a party occa
error in the editions of the Holy Scrip
Such a superb embellishment, the originator of the idea believes, would
sionally. It is possible for her to be
tures. A “cancel” note just received fitly designate the president of this great republic and hiark him out among
<juite well dressed with another pretty
from the king’s printers shows the re his fellow men on any occasion of formiality. Besides, it could be retained
separate waist, which, if she has any
markable anxiety to insure correctness. by ex-presidénts as a soft of token of political pastmastership and passed on
ingenuity, she can make valuable her
It informs us that in a chart attached to their descendants as a pleasant reminder that an ancestor had been in
self by handiwork. If she has not the
to the “Jcrmy Medical Report of 1908” the president’s chair. The supporters of the plan would have a replica ot
skill, I think it would be far better
there is a misplaced dot. Can this ex the Taft chain presented to Theodore Roogevelt, and favor the wearing of a
for her to study sewing in some school
ample of minute corrigenda be beaten? similar but less ornate chain by the governors of the States for purposes of
for the evening and thus attain this
distinction. The opponents of the decoration say it savors of Zelaya or Cas
—London Chronicle.
skill.
tro rather than of a country which is proud of its Lincoln, Its Franklin,
In Belgium a prisoner has turned its Jackson and other Americans who needed no gilding to make them great.
“But let me add that the inconspicu
the old trick and escaped through the
ously dressed woman is always
And no one enjoys the joke, it is said, more than President Taft himself.
prison window hospital. The prince of
best dressed woman.”
rogues weighed 300 pounds and found
more than half its area, The water
himself too large to pass through his
Men Susceptible to Voice.
is supplied wholly by the rivers Amu
cell window, so he played sick and
Very few women realize what
>1
and Syr, which together deliver, on
“soldiered” around until they put him
offect a sweet voice has on a man.
the average, 1,500 cubic metera per
into the prison hospital. He ate noth
woman may be very pretty to look
second. The water is derived from
ing to speak of for fifty days, and be
upon, may be faultlessly and bewitch-
melting mountain snows.
came so thin that he easily squeezed
ingly attired, and attractive in every
We are showing two modish designs for smartly dressed children,
Titanium steel rails for railroads
way, and yet too often directly she frock on the left is given a military tone with its front panel and cuff trim through a window of the “chronic”
were first made experimentally in 1907.
opens her mouth and speaks, the spell ming of narrow braid and buttons. The material is the lightest weight pale ward, having at odd times sawn
Continuing his researches, begun
is broken, the charm is gone. And blue chiffon broadcloth, and that combined with the silver braid and buttons through the bars. Once through the with the ordinary ultraviolet rays, Bil- The results that they showed led to
window
friends
below
helped
him
to
their manufacture by several steel com
this need never be.
makes a most effective little dress. The long-waisted bodice is joined to a plaited
lon-Daguerre in France has recently
Very few voices are so naturally skirt under a sash of sapphire blue satin, the latter tacked at intervals on the ground and took him in an auto. experimented with still shorter rays of panies in 1908, and during 1909, ac
bad that they will not succumb to sides and finished at back in graduated loops. Miss Dainty on the right ,is
The cutting blowpipe, of which so * the spectrum, measuring down to 1,000 cording to the Engineering and Mining
training, and the voice can be trained wearing a quaint, pretty frock of green-striped white challis, with closing on many surprising things have been re units, for the sterilization of all kinds Journal, their manufacture entered
to be just as sweet and gentle as we left side. The little skirt is made iq tunic fashion and cut away to show a ported, has recently been improved in 1 of liquids. He finds that the very upon the commercial scale. Experi
please to makejt.
plaited front The belt is green velvet, a few shades darker than the stripe, France in a way to render it more gen short rays are 25 times as effective as ments on the New York Central have
A woman should speak in a low and matches the covered buttons and sleeve bands. The neck finish Is a flat erally useful. Two inflammable gases 1 the longer ones in their sterilizing confirmed those made elsewhere in
voice. She should not allow her voice collar of baby Irish.
must be employed. One is required to 1 power. He uses quartz vacuum tubes, showing that these rails wear several
to raise itself to a high pitch, She
keep the metal at a high, temperature. immersed in the liquid, and iluminat- times as long as those made of ordi
«hould not shout her orders,
This I trimming on several of the daintiest bursting into song when the water The other is oxygen to concentrate ac ed with currents much more feeble nary Bessemer steel. Titanium has a
great affinity for -nitrogen, and since
shouting and raising of the voice of the ready-made evening gowns.
bolls. The sounds, they say, are pro tion by oxidation along the line of than those required for the mercury it Is believed that considerable nitro
spoils tone and quality, and tends to j Coats of material contrasting with duced by steam bubbles escaping from the cut. For heating, either coal gas, vapor lamps at first employed.
gen remains as an impurity in ordi
make it harsh. A pretty voice is a the skirt are a good deal seen, velvet sheets of iron fastened across the ket acetylene 'or hydrogen is employed, but
One of the pressing problems in nary steel, the good effects of an alloy
powerful attraction in a woman, and being the most used with cloth skirts. tle near the bottom. Skill is required, as there is sometimes difficulty in pro
aerial navigation is that of producing of titanium are ascribed to its acting
she'’ who would add to her charms a
not only in making them, but in regu curing a supply of those gases the new automatic stability. Some investiga as a flux, thereby removing impurities
Black
fur
is
by
far
the
most
attract
wondrous fascination should cultivate
These blowpipe is arranged to use instead tors think that a way may be found and increasing the solidity of the steel.
ive pelt for the trimming of the num lating the fire under them.
a voice “ever soft, gentle and low.”
curious
kettles
have
been
in
use
many the ordinary gasoline employed by mo to cause an aeroplane so to adjust it The increased cost is put at $3.50 per
berless green suits and gowns worn
torists.
years.
self to atmospheric vagaries so that ton of rails.
Russian Tailor-Made.
this season.
The charge that bees are destructive its balance will be maintained without ,
Pretty with coats and colored
Reciprocity.
Really Poor Penman.
to the fruit on the tree is not borne interference. Others are doubtful, be
blouses is the deep cuff of linen with She sewed a button on my coat,
out
by
the
facts.
Their
tongues
are
There
is a certain Philadephia phy
lieving
that
stability
must
always
be
embroidery button-holed scallops and "For I was far from mother,
formed exclusively for the extraction obtained very much in the manne'r in sician of considerable prominence who
“ ’Tis such a thing,” she said to me,
plaited lace frill.
of sweet juices, and their mandibles which it is acquired by a bicycle rider, is renowned among his friends as the
“As I’d do for my brother.”
Street costumes will be made of pon
are unable to pierce the skin of a fruit. that is, by unconscious adjustment. worst penman in the Quaker city. He
gees and rajahs. The latest patterns She looked so pretty sitting there,
Grapes have been taken intact from Birds, the best of fliers, it is remarked, used to write them letters and then
in both goods havè changeable hues
I quickly stooped and kissed her.
the interior of a hive in which they do not possess mechanical stability, feel hurt when they could not read
the same as silks.
“’Tis such a thing,” I said to her,
had been allowed to remain four days. but maintain their balance in gusty them. When he wrote to persons who
“As I’d do to my sister!”
Seed pearls lead in the list of jew
A grape which had been smeared with weather by action which has become were not familiar with his scrawl they
els for hair adornment. They are —Smart Set.
honey was licked clean, but’ was not bo habitual that it is unconscious. Thus frequently would not know whom the
used in combination with fluffy tulle
injured. The bees inserted their the element of intelligence is involved, letters were from. Some time ago
Dainty Ruffle Condemned.
or on the classic bandeau.
The dainty little ruffle that suits SO tongues in pinholes made in the skin although by virtue of long practice he introduced a typewriter into his
Petticoats • to . wear under velvet well a pretty head, making it look like of a grape, and extracted some of the It is applied without conscious exertion office, and this rendered the body of
gowns have an upper part of mousse a flower rising from its calyx, is con juice, but they were unable to enlarge of the will.
the letter intelligible, but did not clear
line de soie, with a flounce and little demned by fashion. The wired lace or the holes.
From 1900 to 1906 L. S. Berg carried up the difficulty over the signature.
frills of some heavier silken fabric.
Writing about the family of King on investigations round the Sea of Now, however, says the Record, he
net collar now stops abruptly, and has
First of all, silks will be worn this a most unfinished look to eyes accus Albert of Belgium, a Berlin corre Aral, and the results have been pub has had made a rubber stamp bearing
year, especially changeable taffetas of tomed to the ruffle. But fashion must spondent says: “Little Prince Leopold lished in Russian. They lead to the his name and address in printing. He
two tones, This is really the most have change, even if It be for the is making rapid progress as a violin conclusion, contrary to that reached signs his name in the usual scrawl, but
important feature as yet 'developed worse.
ist. He displays no phenomenal talent. by others, that there is no general dry alongside he impresses his stamp. It
relative to forthcoming materials.
The music teacher has a painstaking ing up of this inland sea, but that is a little humiliating, he says, but he
Discovered.
and intelligent assistant in Queen periodic changes of its water level oc no longer has any trouble about per
Women always were gentler than Elizabeth, who is an accomplished vio
sons to whom he writes not knowing
Inlc Stains.
men. They say: “O heavens,” while linist. A picture which was recently cur, and that the level has been ris from whom the letters are.
ing continualy since 1880. Berg finds
Fresh ink stains may be removed oy men say just the reverse.—Atchison
taken shows the queen in a plain black the salinity 10.75 per 1,000, as against
the application of sweet milk, and this Globe.
In the west, an automobile story is
skirt and a white shirtwaist, with not more than 12 per 1,000 about 1870.
is good in cases of colored fabrics
always started on every man who
the
smallest
ornament
visible,
stand
The sea has now a superficial area of makes more than a hundred dollars a
Wearing New Shoes.
which may be affected by chemicals
To prevent shoes from blistering the ing in a plainly furnished room, vio about 24,000 square miles, but is very month.
and acids. Fresh stains should be
This model has the full pleated skirt saturated with cold water and then heel, paste a small piece of felt or vel lin in hand, teaching the Little prince. shallow, the mean dejtth being about
The city is always in the situation of
90 acceptable to the American woman, pressed with clean blotting paper. Re vet in the heel; then they will not It is the kind of picture which wil 220 feet., Its total volume of water is
go far toward winning the respect and only about one-tenth of that of the a i poor man with very extravagant
also the new seamless shoulder» the peat until no more stains can be re- slip up and dor '
estem of the people,”
Lake of Baikal, which has* but little 1 tastes.
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Invention